BIOGRAPHIES: Horace HALL, Barron, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Transcribed by Peg Lamkin Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 8 April 2002 ==================================================================== Horace Hall was born in Yorkshire, England, March 3, 1875, son of James and Jane (Davey) Hall, the former a native of Norwich, Norfolk, England, and the latter of Yarmouth, England. They came to America in 1875, lived ten years in Clay County, Nebraska, and in 1885 settled in Chippewa Falls, Wis. Two years later the parents became Salvation Army workers, and so continued the remainder of their lives. As "Happy Jim" and "Mother Hall" they went from place to place in the northern part of the state, and their efforts were crowned with the fruits of much good to their fellowmen. Horace Hall was but ten weeks of age when his parents came to America and but ten years when they came to Wisconsin. In 1897 he came to Barron County, and for several years was variously employed. At one time he owned a small farm in Stanfold Township. His diversion was hunting and fishing, and as he is a great lover of the out-of-doors, he still indulges in these pastimes when time permits. In 1915 he became janitor in the Barron public schools, two years in the Ward building, and now in the high school building. He has a pleasant home of East La Salle street. His social relations are with the Modern Brotherhood, in the local lodge of which he is a charter member. Mr. Hall was married May 24, 1898, to Mary E. Dibbles, daughter of Willard O. and Emily (Grout) Dibbles, who settled in Barron Township when she was about four years of age. Her father is still living and her mother is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have three children. Frederick Willard was born Dec. 5, 1900, graduated from Barron High School in the class of 1919, and is now a student at the Moody Institute, Chicago. Irvine James was born Aug. 4, 1900; and Margaret Mary, Jan. 18, 1914. The family worships at the Baptist Church. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1922, pg. 127.